INDEX.

Alphabetical Whims, 25. Alphabetical advertisement, 29. Enigmas, 30. Eve’s Legend, 28. Jacobite toast, 30. Letter H, 31. Lipogrammata and pangrammata, 25. Marriage of a lady to Mr. Gee, 32. On sending a pair of gloves, 32. The three initials, 30. Univocalic verses, 32.

Acrostics, 39. Alliterative on Miss Stephens, 45. Brevity of human life, 48. Burke, 42. Chronogrammatic pasquinade, 45. Crabbe, 42. Death of Lord Hatherton, 40. Dryden, 42. Emblematic fish, 46. Hempe, 47. Herbert, George, 41. Huber, 42. Irving, 43. Longfellow, 43. Macaulay, 44. Macready, 43. Masonic memento, 47. Monastic verse, 45. Napoleon family, 46. Oliver’s impromptu on Arnold, 44. Rachel, 46. Reynolds, 42. Scott, Walter, 42. Southey, 44. Valentine, a, 49. Wordsworth, 43.

Alliteration, 34. Alphabetical, 34. Address to the Aurora, 36. Belgrade, siege of, 34. Bunker Hill Monument, 34. Prince Charles protected by Flora Macdonald, 35. Title-page for Book of Extracts, 37. Bevy of belles, 39. Complimentary of chess, 37. Couplet on Cardinal Wolsey, 35. Felicitous flight of fancy, 38. Hood’s Ode to Perry, 38. Motives to gratitude, 39. Pulci’s double alliterations, 36. Stanza from Drury’s Dirge, 36.

Anagrams, 49. Epitaphial inscriptions, 56. Telegram anagrammatized, 56.

Bible, the, 103. Accuracy of the Bible, 103. Bibliomancy, 126. Books belonging to, lost or unknown, 114. 854Dissection of Old and New Testaments, 112. Distinctions in the gospels, 113. English Bible translations, 108. Hexameters in the Bible, 115. Misquotations from Scripture, 123. Old and New Testament, names, 125. Parallelism of the Hebrew poetry, 116. Parallel passages between Shakspeare and the Bible, 119. Scriptural bull, 124. Scriptural sum, 126. Selah, 114. Similarity of sound, 118. Testimony of learned men, 106. True gentleman, the, 122. Wit and humor in the Bible, 124.

Blunders, 259. Blunders of translators, 263. Mistakes of misapprehension, 262. Serial inconsistency, 262. Slips of the press, 259. Slips of the telegraph, 261.

Bouts Rimés, 88. Bogart’s Impromptu, 89. Reversed rhyming ends, 90.

Cento, the, 73. Biblical cento, 76. Cento from Pope, 76. Life, 75. Mosaic poetry, 73. Return of Israel, the, 77.

Chronograms, 57.

Churchyard Literature, 564. Advertising notices, 583. Antithesis extraordinary, 606. Bathos, 600. Brevity, 607. Cento, 601. Earth to earth, 612. Epitaph, historical, 578. on a chemist, 609, dog, Byron’s, 614. printer, 607. transcendental, 600. Epitaphs, aboriginal, 602. acrostical, 601. African, 602. biographical, 578. curious and puzzling, 596. eulogistic, apt, appropriate, 570. Greek, 603. Hibernian, 602. laudatory, 608. miscellaneous, 610. moralizing and admonitory, 581. on eminent men, 564. on infants and children, 575. self-written, 580. unique and ludicrous, 583. Mortuary puns, 591. Parallels without a parallel, 600.

Concatenation, or Chain Verse, 85. Lasphrise’s novelties, 85. Ringing Song, 87. To Death, 86. Truth, 86. Trying skying, 87.

Conformity of Sense to Sound, 554. Articulate imitation of inarticulate sounds, 554. Imitation of difficulty and ease, 555. time and motion, 554.

Curious Books, 720. Book-amateurs, 722. Most curious book in the world, 722. 855Odd titles of old books, 720. Silver book, 722.

Customs, Singular, 477. Abyssinian beefsteaks, 478. Beautiful superstition, 477. Foundations of Druidical temples, 478. Hair in seals, 481. High life in the 15th century, 480. Lion-catching in South Africa, 479. Making noses, 479. Matrimonial advertisement, 481. Memento mori, 477. Ostiak regard for boars, 478. Scorning the church, 481. Strange fondness for beauty, 477.

Ecclesiasticæ, 143. Excessive civility, 143. Bascom, eloquence of, 145. Clerical blunders, 148. Lord Bishop, the, 146. Origin of texts, 147. Preachers of Cromwell’s time, 147. Protestant excommunication, 149. Proving an alibi, 148. Sermon on malt, 144. Short sermons, 143. Whitefield and the sailors, 149.

Echo Verse, 281. Acoustics, extraordinary facts in, 289. Bonaparte and echo, 286. Critic’s excuse, 287. Echo answering, 287. and the lover, 284. on woman, 285. Echoes, remarkable, 288. Gospel echo, 283. London before the Restoration, 282. Pasquinade, 283. Queen Elizabeth, 282. Song by Addison, 283. Synod of Dort, 287.

Emblematic Poetry, 92. Altar inscription, 96. Cross, the, 94. Crucifixion, curious piece of antiquity on, 95. Cypher, ingenious, 96. Essay to Miss Catharine Jay, 97. Hindu triplet, 93. Oxford joke, 96. Rhomboidal dirge, 94 Typographical, 96. Wine-glass, the, 93.

English Words and Forms of Expression, 182. Compound epithets, 211. Dictionary English, 182. Disraelian English, 184. Eccentric etymologies, 195. Excise, 189. Forlorn hope, 193. Influence of names, 209. I say, 186. Its, 185. No love lost, etc., 193. Not Americanisms, 191. Nouns of multitude, 184. Odd changes of signification, 205. Our vernacular in Chaucer’s time, 211. Pathology, 186. Pontiff, 190. Pronunciation of ough, 186. Quiz, 194. Rough, 190. Sources of the language, 183. Tennyson’s English, 194. 856That, 185. That mine adversary, 195. Ye for the, 185.

Epigrams, 515. Affinities, 524. Apollo, in return for a sketch of, 525. Author, to a living, 518. Bed, to our, 517. Blades of the shears, 523. Bonnets, 521. Butler’s monument, 518. Campbell’s album verse, 521. Clock, the, 525. Commissary Goldie’s brains, 519. Compliment, overdrawn, 518. Crier who could not cry, 524. Dentist, definition of, 522. Determination, a funny, 526. Double vision utilized, 527. Dum vivimus, vivamus, 516. D.D., on a certain, 521. Eternity, 518. Eve and the apple, 523. Fell, 520. Fiddler, on a bad, 521. Fool and poet, 516. Fools, abundance of, 527. Friend, to Dr. Robert, 516. Friend, to a capricious, 519. Friend in distress, 522. German tourist, suggested by a, 518. Giving and taking, 519. Goodenough, 523. Hog vs. Bacon, 522. Hot corn, 521. Impersonal, 524. Invisible, 524. Lady who married a footman, 521. Late repentance, 517. Law, after going to, 526. Lawyer, on an ill-read, 520. Lover to his mistress, with a mirror, 519. Marriage à la mode, 526. Marriage of Webb & Gould, 526. Martial’s, on Epigrams, 515. Masculine, 525. Medical advice, 522. Mendax, 520. Midas and modern statesmen, 515. Molly Aston, to, 516. One good turn deserves another, 520. One ignorant and arrogant, on, 516. Pale lady with red-nosed husband, 517. Parson and butcher, 525. Portmanteau, clergyman’s, loss of, 518. Queen Bess on Drake’s ship, 524. Queen, the frugal, 519. Quid pro quo, 527. Reception, a warm, 522. Reflection, a, 523. Rogers on Ward’s speeches, 526. Same jawbone, 526. Selvaggi’s distich to Milton, 517. Amplification, by Dryden, 517. Simplicity, prudent, 522. Sleep, inscription on a statue of, 516. Snow, that melted on a lady’s breast, 517. Songsters, bad, 520. Terminer sans oyer, 527. To ——, 519. Wellington’s nose, 520. What might have been, 523. 857Widows, 525. Woman,—contra, 527. pro, 527. Woman’s will, 520. World, the, 527.

Equivoque, 64. Age of French actresses, 71. Double-faced creed, 66. Fatal double meaning, 68. Handwriting on the wall, 71. Houses of Stuart and Hanover, 68. Ingenious subterfuge, 65. Love-letter, 65. Loyalty or Jacobinism, 69. Neat evasion, 70. New Regime, 68. Patriotic toast, 70. Revolutionary verses, 67. Richelieu’s letter to the French ambassador, 64. Triple platform, 61.

Facetiæ, 482. Association of ideas, 491. Brevity, 484. False friend, a, 488. Gasconade and hoaxing, 489. Jack Robinson, 492. Jests of Hierocles, 482. Mathews and the silver spoon, 489. Old Nick, 488. P. and Q., 491. Relics, 490. Royal quandary, 490. Russian jester and his jokes, 492. Same joke diversified, 486. Syllogism, 488. Titles for library-door, 482.

Fabrications, 269. Ballad literature, 274. Description of the Saviour’s person, 269. Franklin’s parable, 275. Hoax on Walter Scott, 269. Ireland’s forgeries, 276. Literary sell, 271. Moon hoax, 270. Mrs. Hemans’s forgeries, 271. Sheridan’s Greek, 273.

Familiar Quotations from Unfamiliar Sources, 556.

Fancies of Fact, the, 406. Aerolites, 443. Alligators swallowing stones, 418. America’s discoverers, fate of, 445. Amount of gold in the world, 423. Antipathies, 471. Army of women, 446. Auditoriums of last century, 409. Back action, 408. Beer-casks, capacious, 425. Bills for strange services, 407. Black hole at Calcutta, 427. Broken heart, a, 467. Chick in the egg, 416. Cloth-manufacture, celerity of, 421. Coincidences, singular, 412. Colors, diversity of, 442. Composition in dreams, 455. Cross, true form of the, 409. Crown of England, 446. Crude value vs. industrial value, 422. Devonshire superstition, 475. Diameter to circumference, ratio of, 431. Difference between English poets, 426. 858Diplomatic costume, 448. Equestrian expeditions, remarkable, 419. Facial expression, 466. Fear, effects of, 465. Feline clocks, 474. Heaven, dimensions of, 435. Horse, wonderful, 420. Indian and his tamed snake, 417. Innate appetite, 417. Kaleidoscope, changes of, 441. Law logic, 407. Lock, wonderful, 421. Longevity, instances of remarkable, 449. Marriage vow, 455. Mathematical prodigies, 432. Means of recognition, 454. Melrose by sunlight, 408. Memory extraordinary, 433. Minute mechanism, 430. Need of Providence, 434. Noah’s ark and the Great Eastern, 442. Number nine, 441. seven, 436. three, 440. Opium and East Indian hemp, 461. Painters, blunders of, 429. Perils of precocity, 427. Presidents, facts about the, 445. Pithy prayer, 408. Quantity and value, 422, Reciprocal conversion, 407. Romans, immense wealth of the, 424. Romantic highwayman, 476. Salt as a luxury, 428. Self-immolation, 434. Sensation and intelligence after decapitation, 469. Sheep, habits of, 418. Silent compliment, 434. Skull that had a tongue, 475. Sleep, facts about, 456. Solomon’s temple, cost of, 435. Star in the East, 447. Stone barometer, 428. Strychnia, bitterness of, 428. Sympathy, strange instance of, 473. Taste, singular change of, 429. Walking blindfolded, 473. Wine at two millions a bottle, 425. Wounds of Julius Cæsar, 406.

Flashes of Repartee, 495.

Hiberniana, 252.

Historical Memoranda, 782. American monarchy, 786. Amy Robsart, 808. Annie Laurie, 804. Biter bit, 818. Blücher, 794. Contemporary criticism, 798. Discovery of America, 803. Empire (the) is peace, 794. First blood of the Revolution, 782. Flight of Eugenie, 789. French tricolor, 788. Great events from little causes, 800. History and fiction, 797. Jefferson on Marie Antoinette, 794. Joan of Arc, 807. Last night of the Girondists, 819. Mary Magdalene, the traditional, 796. Mother Goose, 797. Mother of Charles, V., 795. Napoleon III., 793. Political gamut, 788. 859Quaker malignants, 786. Queen Elizabeth’s ring, 822. Robin Adair, 805. Signing Declaration of Independence, 802. Star-spangled banner, 787. Tea-party and tea-burning, 783. Time of Le Grand Monarque, 815. United States Navy, 784. William Tell, 810.

Historical Similitudes, 679. Art stories, 689. Ballads and legends, 690. Battles, 697. Bishop Hatto, 698. Burial alive, 692. Death prophecies, 696. History repeating itself, 681. Judgment of Solomon, 685. Legend of Beth Gelert, 686. Precedency, 685. Refusal to separate from kindred, 679. Ring stories, 695. Two statesmen, the, 683.

Humors of Versification, 230. Bryant as a humorist, 235. Curse of O’Kelly, 250. Elegy on Buckland, 233. Human ear, the, 238. Lovers, the, 230. Ologies, the, 244. Receipt of a rare pipe, 236. Reiterative vocal music, 248. Reminiscence of Troy, 234. Sir Tray, 240. Song with variations, 231. Stammering wife, 231. Thoughts while rocking the cradle, 232. Variation humbug, 246.

I. H. S., 130. Anticipatory use of the cross, 135. Beautiful legend, 131. Death-warrant of Jesus Christ, 134. De nomine Jesu, 130. Description of the Saviour’s person, 133. Double hexameter, 135. Flower of Jesse, the, 131. Persian apologue, 132.

Impromptus, 528.

Inscriptions, 615. Beer-jug, inscription on, 621. Bells, inscriptions on, 623. Books, fly-leaf inscriptions in, 627. English inns in olden time, 622. Æolian harp, inscription on, 633. Francke’s discovery, 636. Golden mottoes, 636. House inscriptions, 634. Memorials, 635. Motto on a clock, 631. Posies from wedding-rings, 636. Spring, inscription over, 633. Sun-dial inscriptions, 632. Tavern-signs, 615. Watch-paper inscription, 631. Wedding ring, Lady Grey’s, 639. Window-pane inscriptions, 622.

Interrupted Sentences, 277.

Life and Death, 826. After, 850. Beautiful thought, 848. Bodies, preserved, 836. Bone not described by modern anatomists, 832. Charter, rhyming, 830. Common heritage, the, 851. Corpses, folly of embalming, 839. Death’s final conquest, 851. Definitions, rhyming, 830. Destiny, 849. Dying words of distinguished persons, 833. 860Earth, 830. Evening prayer, 848. Fleur-de-lis, the, 843. Futurity, 847. Heart, the, 848. Ill success in life, 847. Imprecatory epitaph, 843. Lawyers, nice questions for, 831. Life, beautiful illustrations of 826. Life’s parting, 849. Living life over again, 829. Mary, Queen of Scots, last prayer of, 835. Moral code, Dr. Franklin’s, 828. Plagues of Egypt, 843. Questions for discussion, 836. Remarkable trance, 835. Round of life, the, 827. Rules of living, 828. Story of long ago, 844. Sympathy, 850. This is not our home, 846. Time, employment of, 829. Tripod, the, 843. Whimsical will, 843.

Literariana, 723. Additional verses to Sweet Home, 746. Anachronisms of Shakspeare, 742. Books and studies, 755. Comfort for book lovers, 753. Conflicting testimony of eye-witnesses, 750. Gray’s elegy, 729. Hamlet’s age, 745. Hamlet’s insanity, 746. Heraldry, Indian, 741. Letters and their endings, 754. Letters of Junius, 723. Old paper, an, 753. Parting interview of Hector and Andromache, 734. Pope’s versification, 737. Punctuation, importance of, 738. Shakspeare and typography, 744. Shakspeare’s heroines, 744. Shakspeare’s sonnets, 745. Stereotyped falsehoods of history, 747. Wit and humor, 751.

Literati, 756. Attainments of linguists, 756. Culture and sacrifice, 761. Dryden and his publisher, 762. Literary oddities, 758. Literary screw, 762.

Lord’s Prayer, the, 136. Acrostical paraphrase, 139. Echoed, 141. Gothic version, 136. Illustrated, 138. In an acrostic, 142. Metrical versions, 137. Spirit of the prayer, 136. Thy and us, 136.

Macaronic Verse, 78. Am Rhein, 83. Cat and rats, 82. Contenti abeamus, 81. Death of the sea serpent, 84. Fly-leaf scribbling, 82. Maginn’s alternations, 80. Parting address to a friend, 83. Polyglot inscription, 83. Suitor with nine tongues, 80. Treatise of wine, 78.

Memoria Technica, 327. Books of the old Testament, 327. New Testament, 327. Days in each month, 330. Decalogue, the, 329. English sovereigns, 328. Metrical Grammar, 330. Presidents of the United States, 328. Shakspeare’s plays, 328.

861Metric Prose, 223. Cowper’s letter to Newton, 223. Disraeli’s Tale of Alvoy, 224. Example in Irving’s New York, 224. Involuntary versification in the scriptures, 228. Johnson on involuntary metre, 229. Kemble and Siddons, 229. Lincoln’s second inaugural, 229. Nelly’s funeral, 225. Niagara, 227. Night, 227. Unintentional rhymes of prosers, 228.

Misquotations, 266.

Monosyllables, 98. Power of short words, 102.

Moslem Wisdom, 508. Alexandrian Library, the, 510. Mohammedan logic, 509. Shrewd decision of Ali, 508. Turkish expedients, 510. Wisdom of Ali, 508.

Multum in Parvo, 823.

Name of God, the, 127. God in Shakspeare, 128. Jehovah, 128. Orthography, 127. Parsee, Jew, and Christian, 129.

Nothing New under the Sun, 375. Ærial navigation, 382. Anæsthesia, 383. Attraction of gravitation, 390. Auscultation and Percussion, 392. Boomerang, the, 389. Circulation of the blood, 382. Discovery of America, predictions of, 393. Early invention of rifling, 390. Magnetic telegraph, foreshadowings of, 375. Steam-power, first discoveries of, 378. Stereoscope, the, 393. Table-moving and alphabet-rapping, 391.

Origin of Things Familiar, 331. All Fools’ day, 332. American flag, 355. Bottled ale, 343. Blue stocking, 366. Brother Jonathan, 356. Bumper, 340. Cards, 336. Cock fighting, 364. Dollar-mark, 357. Drinking healths, 346. Dun, 340. Earliest newspapers, 372. Feather in one’s cap, 346. First doctors, 368. epigram, 371. forged bank-note, 367. piano-forte, 367. prayer in Congress, 370. printing by steam, 373. reporters, 371. telegraphic message, 373. thanksgiving proclamation, 368. Flag of England, 365. Foolscap paper, 366. Friction matches, 365. Humbug, 340. India-rubber, 364. Kicking the bucket, 340. La Marseillaise, 350. Mind your P’s and Q’s, 331. News, 372. Nine tailors make a man, 346. Old Hundred, 349. Order of the garter, 345. Over the left, 339. 862Pasquinades, 341. Postpaid envelopes, 349. Potato, the, 343. Royal saying, 340. Signature of the cross, 348. Skedaddle, 366. Stockings, 344. Sub rosa, 338. Tarring and feathering, 344. Turkish crescent, 348. Turncoat, 364. Uncle Sam, 357. Various inventions and customs, 358. Viz., 347. Word Book, 346. Yankee Doodle, 353.

O. S. and N. S., 325. Gregorian calendar, 325. Results of change in style, 326.

Palindromes, 59.

Parallel Passages, 640. Historical similitudes, 679. Shaksperean Resemblances, 677. Plagiarism of Charles Reade, 677.

Paronomasia, 155. Ben, the sailor, 162. Book-larceny, 164. Classical puns and mottoes, 172. Court-fool’s pun on Laud, 181. Dr. Johnson’s pun, 160. Epitaph on an old horse, 165. Erskine’s toast, 160. Holmes on Achilles, 162. Grand scheme of emigration, 166. Marionettes, 168. Miss-nomers, the, 180. Mottoes of English peerage, 174. Old joke versified, 161. Perilous practice of punning, 167. Plaint of the old pauper, 163. Printer’s epitaph, 161. Pungent chapter, 157. Russian double entendre, 171. Sheridan’s compliment, 162. Short road to wealth, 159. Sonnet, 168. Sticky, 162. Swift’s Latin puns, 169. Sydney Smith’s pun, 160. Tom Moore, 161. To my nose, 163. Top and bottom, 161. Unconscious puns, 171. Vegetable girl, the, 164. Whiskers vs. razor, 162. Winter, 160. Women, 162.

Jeux de Mots, 175. Anagrammatic, 175. Iterative, 175. Bees of the Bible, 179. Catalectic monody, 177. Crooked Coincidences, 181. Fair letter, 176. Franklin’s Re’s, 179. November, 178. On the death of Kildare, 177. Schott and Willing, 177. Swarm of Bees, 179. Turn to the left, 177. Write written right, 177. Spiritual, 175.

Persian Poetry, excerpta from, 511. Beauty’s prerogative, 511. Broken hearts, 511. Caliph and Satan, 513. Double plot, 512. Earth an illusion, 511. Folly for one’s self, 512. Fortune and worth, 511. From Mirtsa Schaffy, 512. Generous man, to a, 511. Heaven an echo of earth, 511. Impossibility, the, 512. 863Moral atmosphere, a, 511. Proud humility, 512. Sober drunkenness, 512. Wine-drinker’s metaphors, 512. World’s unappreciation, the, 513.

Personal Sketches and Anecdotes, 763. André Major, 767. André and Arnold, 768. Bonaparte, name in Greek, 764. personal appearance of, 765. Milton and Napoleon, 764. opinion of suicide, 765. Cromwell, Oliver, 776. Elizabeth, Queen, 774. Flamsteed, the astronomer, 769. Franklin’s wife, 766. Lafayette’s republicanism, 764. Luther, 771. Nelson’s sang-froid, 769. Pope’s skull, 779. Porson, 781. Shakspeare’s orthodoxy, 776. Talleyrandiana, 780. Washington’s dignity, 763. Wickliffe’s ashes, 779.

Prototypes, 699. Air cushions, 702. Cat in the adage, 702. Charge of Light Brigade, 700. Cinderella’s slipper, 699. Consequential damages, 705. Cork-legs, 702. Curtain lectures, 700. Excommunication, 706. Falls of Lanark, 706. Faust legends, 701. Franklin, Turgot’s epigraph on, 707. Know-Nothings, the, 709. Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, 708. Napoleon I., 706. Oldest proverb, 699. Old ballads, 715. Original Shylock, 705. Pilgrim’s Progress, original of, 710. Plagiarism, great literary, 715. Pope’s bull against the comet, 703. Proverb misascribed to Defoe 713. Robinson Crusoe: who wrote it, 712. Scandinavian skull-cups, 714. Shakspeare said it first, 699. Swapping horses, 703. Trade-unions, 704. Use of language, 714. Wandering Jew, 716. Wooden nutmegs, 703.

Puritan Peculiarities, 150. Baptismal names, 150. Connecticut Blue Laws, extracts from, 153. Punishments, 151. Similes, 151. Virginia penalties in old times, 152.

Puzzles, 290. Bonapartean cypher, 292. Book of riddles, 299. Canning’s riddle, 294. Case for the lawyers, 293 Chinese tea-song, 298. Cowper’s riddle, 294. Curiosities of cipher, 301. Death and life, 298. Galileo’s logograph, 297. Newton’s riddle, 294. Number of the beast, 297. Persian riddles, 298. Prize enigma, 294. Prophetic distich, 296. Quincy’s comparison, 295. Rebus, the, 299. Bacon motto, 299. French, 291. Singular intermarriages, 296. What is it? 299. Wilberforce’s puzzle, 301.

864Reason Why, 310. Boston, 311. Cardinal’s red hat, 312. Cutting off with a shilling, 312. Genealogy, 313. Huguenots, 311. Juggler’s mystery, 314. Roast beef of England, 313. Royal demise, 311. Sensible quack, 313. Weathercocks, 312. Why Germans eat sauer-kraut, 310. Why Pennsylvania settled, 311.

Refractory Rhyming, 534.

Sexes, the, 501. Female society, 505. Happy woman, character of, 502. Letter to a Bride, 507. My Mother, 506. Parallel of the sexes, 505. Praise of women, 504. Wife,—mistress,—lady, 505.

Sonnets, 551. Ave Maria, 553. Dyspepsia, 552. Humility, 553. In a fashionable church, 551. Nose, about a, 552. Proxy saint, the, 552. Writing a sonnet, 551.

Tall Writing, 212. Anatomist to his dulcinea, 221. Borde’s prologue, 215. Burlesque of Dr. Johnson’s style, 217. Chemical valentine, 220. Clear as mud, 218. Domicile erected by John, 212. Foote’s farrago, 216. From the Curiosities of Advertising, 213. From the Curiosities of the Post-office, 214. Indignant letter, 219. Intramural æstivation, 220. Mad poet, the, 216. Newspaper eulogy, 218. Ode to Spring, 221. Pristine proverbs for precocious pupils, 222. Spanish play-bill, 215. Transcendentalism, definition of, 212.

Triumphs of Ingenuity, 395. Choosing a king, 402. Discovery of the planet Neptune, 395. Discovery of Vulcan, 396. King John and the abbot, 403. Lesson worth learning, 402. Stratagem of Columbus, 399.

Valentines, 544. Burns, verses of, 546. Cardiac effusion, 547. Colored man’s valentine, 549. Cryptographic correspondence, 544. Digby to Archabella, 548. Egyptian serenade, 549. Lover to his sweetheart, 547. Macaronic, 548. Macaulay’s valentine, 545. Moore, verses of, 549. Strategic love-letter, 544. Teutonic alliteration, 546. Written in sympathetic ink, 544. Petitions, 550. Maids and widows, the, 550. Maladroit appeal, 550.

Weather-Wisdom, 317. Davy on weather-omens, 317. Sheridan’s rhyming calendar, 317. Signs of the weather, 320. Unlucky days, 324.